--- las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> If there is such a debate over the difference in quality between a
> CD
> and it's MD copy, why don't they use the same technology for Md
> that
> they use for the new HDCD?
Are you really talking about HDCD - the extension to the Red Book CD
format develo
The Dixons branch in Welwyn (Hertfordshire, England... where I work)
is closing in a few days for a refit, and, as a result, there are
plenty of bargains to be in the realms of audio.
One thing that really caught my eye was a sleek half-width silver MD
unit, manufactured by Sanyo. The 'Manager'
--- Dan Frakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> Two speakers that are measured by equipment to have the exact same
> specifications can sound remarkably different to human ears, even
> in
> controlled, double-blind testing.
I'd be astonished if you could ever find two speakers (even a
suppose
--- PrinceGaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unless [a] I've completely misunderstood the principles of
> 'masking'
> > or [b] you're using an amp which really struggles to drive your
> > speakers at high volume, and fidelity decreases anyway.
>
>
> Maybe more like your ears being be
--- Dan Frakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can easily hear a whisper in a quiet room, or even in a room
> with a
> bunch of people talking softly, but in a noisy room you can't at
> all. Not
> the best analogy
Well, not really an analogy at all. The whisper remains a whisper
while th
--- Les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try hooking up a JVC CD player in your system and compare that to
> your NAD..
As I said earlier - all bets are off unless you compare like with
like. In other words, the digital feeds from CD source and MD copy
routed through the *same* DAC (and one that
>Les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>"Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>However, on
>>higher-end
>>systems (or even with very good headphones) the difference in
>>sound
>>quality between CD and MD is often immediately audible.
> I would venture
> to say
> that if you had a Sony ES CD deck
> From: David W. Tamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Another one is that the source CD's tracks are subdivided with
> intra-track
> > indices. The practice is rare, but the CD standard does support
> it, and I
> > faintly remember reading ages and ages ago on either this list or
> its
> prede-
> > c
--- Alan Dowds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wow - Richer Sounds backdated the warranty? That's bloody fantastic
> - did
> you have to haggle hard or did they just offer?
They just offered - it took me by surprise too. I don't know whether
my off-the-cuff remark about this being the very fir
--- Simon Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> I would suggest not to scrap the 520 but to look towards buying a
> 530 or
> another secondhand 520 for your next MiniDisc deck. If a part
> common to
> either of these machines has bitten the dust and you need to
> replace it, you
> could use sal
--- "David W. Tamkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I
> gather that
> Mike means the cause might be recording into and reading from the
> additional
> area on 74s after 80s were cloned onto them, not the cloning
> itself.
> my cloning [...] has not involved trying to use the lead-in or
> lead
--- "J. C. R. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope it WAS the 80 minute MDs that did this. I am about to
> petition
> Best Buy to special order a JE520 as a replacement to my junked out
> JE510, and I would like to think that it will last more than a mere
> 13
> months!
I'm sure it will.
[I've been away from this list for some time, so forgive me if this
is old ground]
Hi folks,
My JE520 has finally bitten the dust, I'm afraid. In the last two
days, it started to have problems reading inserted discs, then
problems skipping tracks and finally, last night, when I tried to
skip s
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